Paul Wilmshurst is an Emmy-winning, BAFTA-nominated director, specialising in high-end drama - with a background in documentary film-making

Paul has most recently finished work directing the opening episodes of the new series of JAMESTOWN; once again this was filmed in Budapest, made by Carnival Films for Sky. Season 1 broadcast in the UK in the spring of 2017 to positive reviews and extremely high viewing figures. Paul directed episodes 5 and 6 of the first season, covering an attempted mutiny and an expedition into the mountains in search of silver. In season 2 he directed the first two episodes, setting the scene a year later and introducing new characters and new themes.

Paul previously directed the final four episodes of the second season of hit Channel 4/PBS drama series INDIAN SUMMERS, which filmed in Penang, Malaysia and broadcast in spring 2016; and before that in 2015 he directed the final block of the NBC series A.D., set in 1st Century Jerusalem, and filmed in Morocco.

In 2014 in Peter Capaldi's first season on DOCTOR WHO, he directed three episodes of the hit show: Kill the Moon featured giant spiders and an even larger space dragon; Mummy on the Orient Express was set on a space train and featured a mummy that could only be seen by its victims; and Last Christmas (which was the Xmas special) starred Nick Frost as Santa and featured face-hugging dream crabs and multiple levels of reality, nestled dreams and waking nightmares on a polar base.